Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

So I have installed SP2010 on Windows 7 and here is my guide to help you in your jouney (since it took me a couple of times to get it right)

What I suggest is that you do the below:

1. Read ‘Setting Up The Development Environment for SharePoint Server‘ BEFORE attempting anything

I skimmed through it and had some trouble but here is the general overview of the article. It actually is a little fiddly so try and do all the steps in order, I was so excited I just rushed through it :

1. Extract SP2010 to a folder
2. Change the \files\Setup\config.xml file to add the following line

<Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

3. Install the many prerequisites that you need, in summary

   • Microsoft Sync Framework

   • SQL Server Native Client

   • Microsoft Geneva Framework Beta 1 Runtime for x64

   • ADO.NET Data Services v1.5, which is required to support the REST service that is available at http://localhost/_vti_bin/ListData.svc. Choose the Runtime Only installer.

   • Chart Controls (this is not required if you are going to install SharePoint Foundation 2010).

   • SQL Server Analysis Services – ADOMD.Net (this is not required if you are going to install SharePoint Foundation 2010)

4. Enable all the windows features that you need, which is a lot. But let this be a warning!! If you are doing this manually the picture in the Microsoft Documentation is incorrect!! You need to enable the Windows Communication Foundation Non-HTTP Activation like in the below picture:
   

   MS Article is incorrect, you need to have this enabled!

5. Install SharePoint but DON’T run the Configuration Wizard yet!
6. Install Install SQL Server 2008 KB 970315 x64 (which is actually 2 files both over 150mb)
7. Then run the configuration Wizard.
8. Most probably you will get the infamous ‘AllowInsecureTransport’ Error which is really common then install the fix here
9. Then install Visual Studio 2010 Beta (Dont do this before, I had some weird stuff happen!)
10. Enjoy SP2010
11. For an up to date listing of all the issues that Microsoft knows about in terms of SP2010 Beta check out the SharePoint Developer Documentation Blog

Common Errors

Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException: Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’.

This is because you haven’t installed the hotfix indicated in step 8 above. This is the most common error so install it and see what happens.

Failed to create sample data.

An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+msbin1). If using a custom encoder, be sure that the IsContentTypeSupported method is implemented properly

This is most probably because you followed the Microsoft article and tried to enable the feature manually. In the article the picture is incorrect. You need to enable the Windows Communication Foundation Non-HTTP Activation Feature.

/_vti_bin/ListData.svc is returning 404

Make sure that you have ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 installed.

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